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THE “ridiculous” contract for the Edinburgh trams project represented an “extremely poor deal” for the city council, a public inquiry heard yesterday.
A lawyer for several former employees of Transport Initiatives Edinburgh - the council off-shoot which handled the scheme - said the contract “tended to encourage disputes” and that the pricing information within it was confusing.
The statements were made during closing submissions at the official inquiry into the Scottish capital’s troubled trams project.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
Employment lawyer ALICE BOWMAN warns ‘day one rights’ include an undefined ‘initial period’ and the zero-hours contract fixes create baffling fixed-term loopholes. If the Bill doesn’t work properly and deliver, Labour is doomed
